Improvement in oil-cans



S. S. NEWTON.

OIL-CAN.

,840, Patented Mavrch 1 4, 1876.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

STEPHEN S. NEWTON, OF BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK.

vIMPROVEMENT IN OIL-CANS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 174.840, dated March 14, 1876; application tiled February 18,1876. A

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STEPHEN S. NEWTON, ot' Binghamton, in the county of Broome and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Oil-Gans, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

Figure lis a vertical section of my improved oiler with the discharging ports open. Fig. 2 is also a sectional view with the dischargingports closed and the drip-ports open.

One of the objects of the invention is to so construct a can that the operator shall, when he opens the oritice through which the oil is discharged, by the same movement of parts close the opening through which the oil from the drip enters the can, as will be hereinafter explained.

ln the drawings, A represents the body of the can, which may "be of any suitable material, and of any desired form or size, as may be foundconvenient. The neck, at a, is provided with a female screw-thread. B is the nozzle or delivery-tube, having its lower ent threaded, as at O', and carrying a flange, c1, and being perforated, as at c2 c3. O is a thimble or tubular socket ot' the drip-cup E, hav ing an external thread, which tits the female thread a of the neck, and an internal thread, which receives the threaded end O of the nozzle B. D is a packing-washer, arranged upon the lower end of the tube B, and is compressed between the Hange c1 and the lower orinner end of the thimble O when the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 2. E is a drip-cup, connected with or made in one piece with the socket O. e is an inwardlyturning flange formed upon the upper edge of the drip-cup.

When the parts are in the position shown in Fig. l, the oil will pass freely through ports c2 and out of the tube B when the can is inverted, as will be readily understood.

When, however, the lower end of the tube B is in the position shown in Fig. 2,110 oil can be discharged from the body of the can but such oil as may tlow down the outside of said tube will be arrested by the drip-cup E, and will pass through the ports c3 into the tube, from whence it may be ejected through the tip of the tube with oil which is received through ports c2; or, when preferred, this dripping may be returned to the can by opening ports c2; as in Fig. 1.

I do not wish to be confined to using these drip-ports c3, as some of the advantages which are incident to the other features of construction may be derived without them, it being evident that the closing of the can against leakage by means of the flange ci, or by withdrawing the ports c2 within the thiinble O, is independent of the function of the drip-ports 5 but in practice I prefer to use these drip-ports, as such use will insure that there shall be no accumulation of oil in cup E, because the dripping will be ejectedfroin tube B whenever the oiler is used.

What I claim isl. The combination, in an oil can, of the body A, the thiinble C, and the nozzle B, having its lower end screw-threaded and provided with discharging-ports 02, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with the body A and drip-clip E, of the screw-threaded nozzle B, provided with drip-ports c3, whereby the dripping may pass into said nozzle and be ejected through its tip, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination of the body A, the dripcup E, and the screw-threaded nozzle B, provided with ports c2 c3, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

STEPHEN S. NEWTON.

Witnesses:

LEE M. OAFEERTY, WM. R. OsBoEN. 

